Ok so I've done 3 leves and as of yet, I've still earned no points?! My Archer rank has stayed at level 1 at 200/570 and physical level 2 stuck at 300/3400, they haven't moved..is this a bug? Or is there a reason I'm not getting anywhere?

were you in a party, but nowhere near the rest of it, or perhaps the party leader? I had the same issue when my GF and i parted ways, she started in Gridania and i in Ul'Dah, after some leve quest burning we split up to do the story quests and i found the mobs i killed gave no exp, nor did the ones she killed. Perhaps that is the reason.

I had this exact problem. Well my first problem was my character was stuck in place and could not move nor toggle active mode. I logged off and logged back in and ran into another set of problems, My tp would flux weirdly, it would jump to like 2k and when I would get hit by the enemy or try and use my 1,000 TP move it would drop back down to 200tp. Also I stopped getting exp and weapon skill from mobs. I logged off and deleted my Final Fantasy XIV Beta Folder (Uninstalled the beta before I installed the full game but the beta folder was still in My documents) and logged back in and haven't ran into this problem. There's still some weird bugs in this game, but that comes with any new mmo.